On her wedding day Susan is hit by a meteorite which turns her in to a giant. The government comes to pick her up and stick her in monster jail, forever. Forever that is until a giant alien robot lands in San Francisco and the only way to stop it is to release the monsters, Gigantica aka Susan, Professor Cockroach, The Missing Link, Bob and Insectasauras.
What a brilliant concept, a big smack fight between monsters and a bunch of aliens. Though technically its been done many times by Toho where Godzilla and his pantheon have done similar things. And I’m pretty sure that Gamara has too. But whatever, its still a good idea.
They miss the mark a little here, but not hugely. The 50ft woman isn’t the best monster going, but I guess they wanted a bit of a human connection. She’s far from the most interesting character in the movie too, but that’s generally the case when it comes to animation.
The first half didn’t really grab me at all, but things pick up once they start fighting the giant robot. The animation of the humans is generally pretty generic and I was far from impressed, but they can make some pretty blowing up scenery at Dreamworks.
It’s not as whacky as the years other non Pixar big animation movie, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs. But it has the chance to be as the concept is pretty mental. Unfortunatly they didn’t go balls out, or just didn’t have the writing chops to pull it off.
A couple of the characters are fun though. The Prof could be great if he’s given the chance to make a lot of crazy inventions, which he wasn’t HUGELY given in this film. Insectasauras was also a bit under used. I know its tough to find something to do with an enormous bug but they should have stuck him in there more. He kind of just stands about and roars for the most part.
Bob was hilarious though. A big, dumb, gelatinous blob who provides much of the verbal comic relief for the film. And President Colbert was nice too.
There’s plenty of craziness here and kids will probably love it. I still liked it so there’s that for the adults, but I’d want a sequel to be funnier. I saw this in 2D though it was shot for 3D. It didn’t really have many glaring “this should be in your face!!!!1!!!” moments that are a bit of a problem for 3D films, but there were one or two. One is blatantly obvious at the start. But watching in 2D doesn’t seem to be any kind of an issue.
Next up: The Informant! I’m not excited, that’s just the title of the film. With a ! at the end.
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